User talk:Elf

Elf is taking a long wikibreak and will be back on Wikipedia probably at random long intervals for minor edits and sometimes to check for messages, but 2 years of one's life is a long time to devote to something for which one doesn't get paid, no matter how interesting it has been..

Hi, Elf. Any idea why this image -- as used as Subway (underpass) -- will not allow itself to be re-sized? Should you answer this, please bear in mind that you will be addressing a technoramus... ;) -- Picapica 21:56, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I've heard you say you have quite a collection of dog books. Any chance you could list them for us? Vortex 00:51, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

OK, I added User:Elf/dog book database and I also included a link to it from my main user page where I say that I have a lot of books about dogs. :-) Enjoy. Don't know how useful it is without ISBNs or detailed descriptions, but it's what I've got. Elf | Talk 21:57, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Oh wow. This is extremely helpful. All I need is the title and author anyway, I can look for descriptions myself. Many thanks my friend. I shall start searching for these immediately. I'm sure others will appreciate this list as well. :) Vortex 22:19, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I also suspect that a lot of these are out of print. And note that I'm not saying how *useful* any individual one is. :-) Anyway, glad I could add cheer to your day. Elf | Talk 22:40, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

The Oddball Barnstar is for editors who create ... something that one wouldn't expect to find in more traditional encyclopedias. Please take a moment to see how 'your' category has grown in just over a year. User:Pedant 21:18, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I was working on Juggling, and related hard-to-categorise subjects, and your category helped to group some dissimilar things that seemed to need to go together. I'll be likely to add some more things to that category too. Thanks again, and remember even if you don't come around much, your contributions will continue to be both welcome and valued. User:Pedant 23:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

I can imagine few if any people who are more deserving of this recognition than you. Your tireless efforts to date to improve and maintain the quality of the dogs articles has been invaluable to wikipedia, and I hope that you will accept this small token of our appreciation and recognition. I regret to say that it is not in my power to grant what I believe to be a citizen of the United States an official title, but I believe few other people are more deserving of receiving wikipedia's OBF (which is as close as I can approximate OBE). Thank you again for all your extraordinary work. Badbilltucker 15:34, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

And, by the way, this is not an effort to prevent you from leaving, if you so desire. I for one would be very sorry to see you leave completely, but can understand how you might view it as the best of a group of bad options. Certainly, no one wants to see your own life hurt because of your efforts here. However, whether you do come back or not, I have no doubt that this little recognition is more than adequately earned. Badbilltucker 16:30, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Can you replace this with a higher resolution version? It's an attractive picture, and I would like to continue using it in the article, because it looks like the Bay Area poison oak I am so familiar with, but the resolution is much too low. Let me know on my talk page, or better yet, just upload something. Thanks. KP Botany 19:42, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

I see you're on Wikibreak. When you get around to is fine. KP Botany 19:43, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

It's archived onto CD; I'll have to search it out. Suggestion on what you'd like to see in the way of resolution? Elf | Talk 20:10, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Hello! I was wondering if you have a larger version of LabradorWeaving.jpg; I would like to nominate it for Quality Image on the Commons, but the guidelines require that images be roughly 1600x1200 or larger. grendel|khan 12:42, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

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Dear Elf,
Found this while surfing the web this morning, I don't know if anything can be done about it since they do have the website name on it, but I wasn't sure if you'd want your photo being used on a list of the most aggressive dogs breeds. It is a pic of a Springer. They originally had one up from the Zim Family Cocker Forum, but someone caught on and notified Jim Zim and it was pulled, only to be replaced with your pic!

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Hello there. I finally found the time (and I admit I was kind of procrastinating :)) to upload a new photo to the Heterochromia iridum page, as you suggested on my talk page. It's the first photo in the gallery. Do you think the quality of the photo is good enough this time? Would be glad to know and thanks in advance. :) --- ☣Hardstylehunt3r(talk)(contribs) 21:04, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

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Hello, Elf. I was just looking through my old talk page archives, and I saw that you were one of the very first people to ever say hello on my userpage, way back in April of 2004, before I had even figured out how signatures work. Oh, how time flies. My beloved Groenendael has passed away long ago, and I have retired and returned many times, but Wikipedia remains. I'm glad to see you're still around. All the best, – Quadell(talk) 19:51, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Elf, I want to say thank you for your contributions to the Wikipedia. I noticed your excellent comment of January 14, 2006 (!!!!) at Talk:Canine. I arrived because I was disambiguating a recent usage of ambiguous "canine" to "canidae" instead, I believe correctly, in this edit. Funny that 10 years ago you were bemoaning the information lost as disambiguating editors do their damage, which seems very familiar to me. I have recently been participating in the massive disambiguation efforts of wp:DPL and have been seeing damage done by disambiguators sometimes, perhaps especially within wp:DPL's Monthly Disambiguation Challenge. And sometimes I have been bemoaning loss of information by disambiguations done, including yesterday within a requested move at Talk:Paperboy. Interesting to see your concern 10 years ago.

From your note above I gather you were very active during two years up to some point in 2013 and now are not active, but I also see you made an edit in 2015 not too long ago. And I see you have an archive about dog-related discussion from this talk page, so I am going to go ahead and ask you if you can help on a dog-related issue right now:

At the Canine disambiguation page, there is the following hierarchy given:

But, it begs the question for me of what is "Caninae, the sub-family", and couldn't that be better explained to help users of the dab page. I wanted to fix that up. Usage of "the sub-family" implies it is the only family within Canidae, which apparently is a family, so I wondered if perhaps it would be correct to revise that to something like "Caninae, the only current family within the order Canidae although there were other now-extinct families", if that was a fair description (apparently it is not, including because Canidae is apparently a family). But the Caninae page is really poor, in my view, or something else is wrong, because it is not even clear that Canis is within Caninae, though it must be if the hierarchy at the dab is correct.

In fact the Caninae article implies Canis is not within it, because it states that

Maybe the hierarchy changed? And further I note at Canidae that it includes "canini" and "true foxes" (vulpini) which perhaps should be mentioned in the dab hierarchy. I also made this edit at "Canini" which I hope is correct.

Could you help make a modified version of the hierarchy, to be more informative, perhaps something like the following? :

Canidae: family of all canids, which include canini (domestic dogs, wolves, jackals, coyotes, and other dog-like mammals) and vulpini (true foxes)

Caninae, the sub-family of just canini (is that correct?) which includes several genuses (?)

Another in the same genre: what you can't see is the house's best feature, a quite large span of Tiffany studios stained glass windows! I had an invitation to come back some other time to take pix of that from the inside, but never did. :(

Help! I just wanted to edit the hierarchy at the dab page based on the corresponding articles, to make the dab page more useful. Can you possibly fix it up, and/or let me know how to? It is beyond what I can do, it seems. Editors sometimes say there is "no deadline" to making the Wikipedia perfect, but it would be nice to get this fixed up sooner rather than later, if there is indeed something wrong, IMHO. No problem if you cannot address this. Either way, thank you for your direct contributions plus the moaning which is an indirect one. :) --doncram 21:12, 7 September 2015 (UTC)

Hi again, that was quick! Thank you for the encouragement to go ahead, that helps a lot. Okay and then i am not so puzzled any more, having browsed a bit. The fact that Caninae has 3 "basal" genuses(sp?) genera is not what I thought it meant (i incorrectly thot it meant basic? and that the three were being presented possibly as an exclusive list); there's a whole lot more genera including Canis genus within it, as shown in the infobox. It helps to look at the infobox, apparently part of some comprehensive system of them! And whatever the recent "revisions of the subfamily" were (which worried me), they didn't change that. Certainly the Caninae article could/should say a bit more, even just drawing from its genera articles, and i now feel confident enough to go ahead and add to it. I will add the maybe-obvious-to-some but totally necessary statement IMHO that it includes Canis which includes dogs. And Caninae doesn't include the vulpini, it seems to be synonymous to canini, so I can revise the explanation of hierarchy on the dab page, too.

Very funny, your User:Elf#The horrible addiction...and recovery? tabulation is! :) Yikes, I have climbed back up to 223, after dropping pretty far from a peak of a couple years ago, somewhere around 170. It's because I have gotten into the disambiguation task, and even ended up "winning" the August Monthly Dab Challenge (though I promise I tried to do all good edits, and did other good work behind the scenes to help improve the general quality of dabbing going on). Very sick of me. :( Your 3579 is much better. Oh, i see your two very active years were 11 to 9 or so years ago, I don't know how i got the impression it was up to 2013. Congratulations! Thanks again for your complaining and encouragement, both helpful. :) cheers, --doncram 03:28, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

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Ouch. You are correct, DPL bot. I checked all the others, but this was a last-minute added link and I did not check it. Leaving this here to remind myself in the future. (Maybe.) Elf | Talk 16:35, 8 May 2016 (UTC)

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Has been too long, no idea where it came from back then, except that it was a government image site somewhere where they were for public use. Since it no longer seems to be used anywhere anyway, could certainly be removed if in question. Elf | Talk 05:02, 17 October 2016 (UTC)

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